Hiring your wedding vendors is one of the most stressful parts of wedding planning. How do you know who’s right and, maybe more importantly, who’s wrong? Read on and we’ll guide you through the qualifications that you need to evaluate.

It’s important that you like and get along with the vendors that you hire for your wedding. Think of them like invited guests, except, you know, you’re paying them to be there. And they’re working the whole time.

What would you do if a hurricane threatened to interrupt your wedding plans? Would you run around screaming with your hands flailing in the air? That’s one plan but it wouldn’t be especially productive.

You want the absolute best venue, photographer, and DJ that you can afford. Duh. Why wouldn’t you? Of course you want to have a wedding for the ages. Now imagine choosing the best of everything and then finding out that they’ve chosen somebody else – another bride!